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The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof Isaac
Asuzu, has warned the union leaders against stoking the embers of crisis
that could pit the management against the entire workforce, saying the
university authority would not hesitate to wield the big stick against
unruly staff.

The unions were: Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities,
Non-Academic Staff Union and National Association of Technologists,
which had gone on strike over non-payment of the allowances to the 1,469
workers in the university.Asuzu, who was reacting to the sit-down strike embarked on by the
three major unions in the university, in recent times, described the
agitations for immediate payment of hazard and relocation allowances as
practically impossible as of now, in view of paucity of funds in the
four-year old university.Asuzu also dispelled the impression by striking union leaders that
the hazard allowance could be defrayed through the funds from pre-degree
programme, saying that university realises a sum of N21 million
annually from the programme , while it required a sum of N37.1 million
monthly to pay the allowance.He also denied the insinuation that the university was owing five
months’ salary of workers, describing the information as an attempt by
some recalcitrant union leaders to discredit the management.
“This is a university and we have a process through which a worker
can embark on a strike. If anybody violates the process, he will face
disciplinary action. This is not a lawless place, but whatever action I
take is not against any individual, but the law governing a university
must not be broken“ASUU, SSANU and NAT have opted out of the strike when they knew we
had a good case. But it was only the NASU that was recalcitrant. But we
thank God that it has also suspended its own strike last Friday”, he
saidSOURCE: Gbenga Sodeinde for daily times

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